The Neocons who now run the U.S. government lamented, before 9/11 , that they could not in stitute their plans for global domination without a “new Pearl Harbor”

So Cheney had a lot of motivation to “accidentally” let 9/11 happen.

Cheney also knew 9/11 was going to happen. The government knew that terrorists could use planes as weapons — and had even run its own drills of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, using REAL airplanes — all before 9/11 . Indeed, the government heard the 9/11 plans from the hijackers’ own mouths before 9/11 .

He Only Had to Wait a Couple of Minutes

Before you say “that’s a crazy conspiracy theory”, please note that Cheney would have only had to delay normal military response a couple of minutes to let the 9/11 attacks succeed.

Specifically, the Secretary of Transportation testified to the 9/11 Commission:

“During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President … the plane is 50 miles out … the plane is 30 miles out … and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president do the orders still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said “Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!?”

All Cheney had to do was delay normal defensive procedures a couple of minutes to let the plane slam into the Pentagon. It was obvious by that time that the 9/11 attacks were not random instances of “pilot error”. Cheney – in charge of counter-terrorism on 9/11 – simply had to watch the plane approach from many miles away and yell at everyone that “the orders still stand” to let the attacks succeed.

By just delaying for a few minutes , Cheney’s long-dreamed Iraq and Afghanistan wars, imperial ambitions as described by the Project for a New American Century, and increase of powers domestically would all be justified.

Given Cheney’s masterminding of a torture program to produce false information about 9/11, fake intelligence regarding WMDs to justify the Iraq war, centralization of power in the executive branch, assassinations and other hanky panky, and the rest of Cheney’s biography, do you really think he couldn’t delay things a couple of minutes to reach all of this goals?

The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – said “At some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened”. He also said “I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin. This is not true.”

The Commission’s co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) “obstructed our investigation”